Yellow card rethink: Duffy

THE punitive nature of the proposed new yellow card rule may yet be re-examined by the Football Review Committee, according to GAA director-general Paraic Duffy.

While welcoming the tranche of rule changes proposed by the FRC for the GAA's annual Congress in March, Duffy admitted to concerns over plans for a more draconian 'yellow peril'.

Under the FRC blueprint, yellow-carded players would be sidelined for the rest of the game and replaced by a substitute, with no such replacements allowed beyond three per team, while a player earning three yellows in a season would serve a two-match ban.

"The only negativity I have seen around has been around the yellow card proposal," Duffy told RT&Eacute; Radio over the weekend. "That may need to be looked at. There's no point going to Congress with a proposal that is not going to be passed."

He added: "There is a genuine concern that the proposal around the yellow card may be too severe... it may have to be looked at again, but that's a matter for the committee. We're still at the stage of drafting motions."